Restriction [Patent] Law and Legal Definition
If two or more independent and distinct inventions are claimed in a single application, then the examiner shall require the applicant to elect a single invention to which the claims will be limited to. This requirement is known as a requirement for restriction or a requirement for division. Such requirement is normally be made before any action on the merits; but, it can be made at any time before final action.
Legal Definition list
- Restriction Affecting Flight Procedures [Aeronautics and Space]
- Restriction [Patent]
- Restricted Visibility
- Restricted Transaction [Banks & Banking]
- Restricted Stock
- Restrictions on Gambling [Aviation Law]
- Restrictive Covenant
- Restrictive Endorsement
- Restrictive Principle of Sovereign Immunity
- Restructured International Loan
- Resulting Power
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- Administrative Instructions [Patents]
- Affidavit [Patents]
- Affordable Housing Restriction
- Agricultural Preservation Restrictions
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- All Substantial Rights to a Patent [Internal Revenue]
- Allowed Application [Patent]
- Ambiguitas Verborum Patents Nulla Verificatione Excluditur
- Annexes [Patents]
